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4Establishing Order, 175 FERC ¶ 61,224 at PP 4, 

7. 

5 Id. P 6. 

6See 18 CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) (2022). 

1The Council on Environmental Quality’s (CEQ) 

regulations under 40 CFR 1501.10(b)(1) (2022) 

require that EAs be completed within 1 year of the 

federal action agency’s decision to prepare an EA. 

See National Environmental Policy Act, 42 U.S.C. 

4321 et seq., as amended by section 107(g)(1)(B)(iii) 

of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, Public Law 

118–5, 4336a, 137 Stat. 42. 

Rehabilitation Act of 1973. For 

accessibility accommodations, please 

send an email to accessibility@ferc.gov 

or call toll free 1–866–208–3372 (voice) 

or 202–208–8659 (TTY), or send a fax to 

202–208–2106 with the required 

accommodations. 

As explained in the Establishing 

Order, the Commission will issue 

agendas for each meeting of the Task 

Force, after consulting with all Task 

Force members and considering 

suggestions from state commissions.4

The Establishing Order set forth a broad 

array of transmission-related topics that 

the Task Force has the authority to 

examine and will focus on topics related 

to planning and paying for transmission, 

including transmission to facilitate 

generator interconnection, that provides 

benefits from a federal and state 

perspective.5 All interested persons, 

including all state commissions, are 

hereby invited to file comments in this 

docket on agenda topics for the next 

public meeting of the Task Force by 

January 8, 2024. The Task Force 

members will consider the suggested 

agenda topics in developing the agenda 

for the next public meeting. The 

Commission will issue the agenda no 

later than February 14, 2024, for the 

public meeting to be held on February 

28, 2024. 

Comments may be filed electronically 

via the internet.6 Instructions are 

available on the Commission’s website, 

https://www.ferc.gov/ferc-online/ 

overview. For assistance, please contact 

FERC Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll 

free at 1–866–208–3676, or for TTY, 

202–502–8659. Although the 

Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing, documents may also be 

paper-filed. To paper-file, submissions 

sent via the U.S. Postal Service must be 

addressed to: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, Office of the Secretary, 

888 First Street NE, Washington, DC 

20426. Submissions sent via any other 

carrier must be addressed to: Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, Office 

of the Secretary, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, 

Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

More information about the Task 

Force, including frequently asked 

questions, is available here: https://

www.ferc.gov/TFSOET. For more 

information about this meeting, please 

contact: Cameron Schilling, 202–502– 

8202, Cameron.Schilling@ferc.gov; or 

Sarah Fitzpatrick, 202–898–2205, 

sfitzpatrick@naruc.org. For information 

related to logistics, please contact Rob 

Thormeyer, 202–502–8694, 

robert.thormeyer@ferc.gov. 

Dated: December 14, 2023. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2023–27991 Filed 12–19–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 2466–037] 

Appalachian Power Company; Notice 

of Intent To Prepare an Environmental 

Assessment 

On February 28, 2022, Appalachian 

Power Company (Appalachian) filed an 

application for a new major license for 

the 2.4-megawatt Niagara Hydroelectric 

Project (Niagara Project; FERC No. 

2466). The Niagara Project is located on 

the Roanoke River, in Roanoke County, 

Virginia. The project is adjacent to and 

partially within the Blue Ridge 

Parkway. 

In accordance with the Commission’s 

regulations, on February 7, 2023, 

Commission staff issued a notice that 

the project was ready for environmental 

analysis (REA Notice). Based on the 

information in the record, including 

comments filed on the REA Notice, staff 

does not anticipate that licensing the 

project would constitute a major federal 

action significantly affecting the quality 

of the human environment. On April 26, 

2023, the Commission issued a notice 

indicating that staff intended to prepare 

a draft and final Environmental 

Assessment (EA). However, upon 

further review, staff intends to prepare 

a single EA on the application to 

relicense the Niagara Project. 

The EA will be issued and circulated 

for review by all interested parties. All 

comments filed on the EA will be 

analyzed by staff and considered in the 

Commission’s final licensing decision. 

The Commission’s Office of Public 

Participation (OPP) supports meaningful 

public engagement and participation in 

Commission proceedings. OPP can help 

members of the public, including 

landowners, environmental justice 

communities, Tribal members and 

others, access publicly available 

information and navigate Commission 

processes. For public inquiries and 

assistance with making filings such as 

interventions, comments, or requests for 

rehearing, the public is encouraged to 

contact OPP at (202) 502–6595 or OPP@

ferc.gov. 

By this notice, Commission staff is 

updating the procedural schedule for 

completing the EA. The revised 

schedule is shown below. Further 

revisions to the schedule may be made 

as appropriate. 

Milestone Target date 

Commission issues EA .... April 2024.1

Comments on EA ............ May 2024. 

Any questions regarding this notice 

may be directed to Laurie Bauer at (202) 

502–6519 or laurie.bauer@ferc.gov. 

Dated: December 14, 2023. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2023–27984 Filed 12–19–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 15302–001] 

LinkPast Solutions, Inc.; Notice of 

Preliminary Permit Application 

Accepted for Filing and Soliciting 

Comments, Motions To Intervene, and 

Competing Applications 

On June 26, 2023, LinkPast Solutions, 

Inc., filed an application for a 

preliminary permit, pursuant to section 

4(f) of the Federal Power Act (FPA), 

proposing to study the feasibility of 

hydropower on the Black River in 

Jefferson County, New York. The sole 

purpose of a preliminary permit, if 

issued, is to grant the permit holder 

priority to file a license application 

during the permit term. A preliminary 

permit does not authorize the permit 

holder to perform any land-disturbing 

activities or otherwise enter upon lands 

or waters owned by others without the 

owners’ express permission. 

The proposed Sewalls Island Hydro 

Project would be located on the North 

Channel of the Black River at Sewalls 

Island in Watertown, New York. The 

proposed project would operate with 

flows below the minimum and above 

the maximum hydraulic capacities of 

Erie Boulevard Hydropower, L.P.’s 

Sewalls Development of the Black River 

Hydroelectric Project No. P–2569 

(Sewalls Development). The Sewalls 


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Development consists of two dams—a 

90-foot-long, 18.5-foot-high concrete 

gravity dam on the North Channel of 

Sewalls Island (North Channel dam) and 

a 243-foot-long, 15.5-foot-high concrete 

gravity dam on the South Channel of 

Sewalls Island. A 4-acre reservoir with 

a storage capacity of 48-acre-feet at an 

elevation of 466.45 feet National 

Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 was 

created by the dams. 

The proposed project would consist of 

the following: (1) two new 

powerhouses—a 70-foot-long by 30-footwide reinforced concrete powerhouse at 

the North Channel dam (powerhouse 

#1) and a 60-foot-long, 40-foot-wide 

reinforced concrete powerhouse 

downstream on the North Channel at 

the lower end of Sewalls Island 

(powerhouse #2); (2) a new 70-foot-long, 

25-foot-wide integral intake structure at 

the North Channel dam for use by both 

powerhouses; (3) a new 12.5-footdiameter, 1,250-foot-long steel and 

concrete penstock for conveying water 

to powerhouse #2 that would involve 

the demolition of the existing 80-footlong, 16-foot-high Black Clawson Dam 

on the western tip of the island in the 

North Channel; (4) an axial flow vertical 

turbine-generator unit with an installed 

capacity of 3,600 kilowatts (kW) and a 

micro turbine-generator unit with an 

installed capacity of 15.7 kW housed in 

powerhouse #1; (5) one or more axial 

flow vertical turbine-generator unit(s) 

with a total installed capacity of 5,500 

kW housed in powerhouse #2; (6) a new 

approximately 120-foot-long access road 

for powerhouse #1 and a new 

approximately 320-foot-long access road 

for powerhouse #2; (7) a new 1,900-footlong, 23-kilovolt (kV) transmission line 

connecting the powerhouses to the 

existing switchyard of the Black River 

Project’s Sewalls Development (option 

1) or a new 4,270-foot-long, 23-kV 

transmission line connecting the 

powerhouses to a switchyard adjacent to 

the New York Airbrake Manufacturing 

plant; and (8) appurtenant facilities. The 

proposed project would have an average 

annual generation of approximately 

2,245 megawatt-hours. 

Applicant Contact: Brian McArthur, 

LinkPast Solutions, Inc., P.O. Box 5474, 

Clark, NJ 07066; phone: (848) 628–4414. 

FERC Contact: Monir Chowdhury; 

phone: (202) 502–6736. 

Deadline for filing comments, motions 

to intervene, competing applications 

(without notices of intent), or notices of 

intent to file competing applications: 60 

days from the issuance of this notice. 

Competing applications and notices of 

intent must meet the requirements of 18 

CFR 4.36. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing. Please file comments, 

motions to intervene, notices of intent, 

and competing applications using the 

Commission’s eFiling system at https:// 

ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx. 

Commenters can submit brief comments 

up to 6,000 characters, without prior 

registration, using the eComment system 

at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/

QuickComment.aspx. You must include 

your name and contact information at 

the end of your comments. For 

assistance, please contact FERC Online 

Support at FERCOnlineSupport@

ferc.gov, (866) 208–3676 (toll free), or 

(202) 502–8659 (TTY). In lieu of 

electronic filing, you may submit a 

paper copy. Submissions sent via the 

U.S. Postal Service must be addressed 

to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE, Room 1A, Washington, 

DC 20426. Submissions sent via any 

other carrier must be addressed to: 

Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 12225 

Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 

20852. 

More information about this project, 

including a copy of the application, can 

be viewed or printed on the ‘‘eLibrary’’ 

link of the Commission’s website at 

https://elibrary.ferc.gov/eLibrary/search. 

Enter the docket number (P–15302) in 

the docket number field to access the 

document. For assistance, contact FERC 

Online Support. 

Dated: December 14, 2023. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2023–27979 Filed 12–19–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. EL24–22–000] 

Madison Fields Solar Project, LLC; 

Notice of Institution of Section 206 

Proceeding and Refund Effective Date 

On December 13, 2023, the 

Commission issued an order in Docket 

No. EL24–22–000, pursuant to section 

206 of the Federal Power Act (FPA), 16 

U.S.C. 824e, instituting an investigation 

to determine whether Madison Fields 

Solar Project, LLC’s Rate Schedule is 

unjust, unreasonable, unduly 

discriminatory or preferential, or 

otherwise unlawful. Madison Fields 

Solar Project, LLC, 185 FERC ¶ 61,183 

(2023). 

The refund effective date in Docket 

No. EL24–22–000 established pursuant 

to section 206(b) of the FPA, will be the 

date of publication of this notice in the 

Federal Register, or the date Madison 

Fields’ Rate Schedule becomes effective, 

whichever is later, provided, however, if 

the Rate Schedule does not become 

effective until after 5 months from the 

date of publication of the notice, the 

refund effective date shall be 5 months 

from the date of publication of the 

notice. 

Any interested person desiring to be 

heard in Docket No. EL24–22–000, must 

file a notice of intervention or motion to 

intervene, as appropriate, with the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

in accordance with Rule 214 of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure, 18 CFR 385.214 (2022), 

within 21 days of the date of issuance 

of the order. 

In addition to publishing the full text 

of this document in the Federal 

Register, the Commission provides all 

interested persons an opportunity to 

view and/or print the contents of this 

document via the internet through the 

Commission’s Home Page (http://

www.ferc.gov) using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. 

To access this document in eLibrary, 

type the docket number excluding the 

last three digits of this document in the 

docket number field. User assistance is 

available for eLibrary and the FERC’s 

website during normal business hours 

from FERC Online Support at 202–502– 

6652 (toll free at 1–866–208–3676) or 

email at ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov, or 

the Public Reference Room at (202) 502– 

8371, TTY (202) 502–8659. Email the 

Public Reference Room at 

public.referenceroom@ferc.gov. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filings of comments, protests 

and interventions in lieu of paper using 

the ‘‘eFile’’ link at http://www.ferc.gov. 

In lieu of electronic filing, you may 

submit a paper copy. Submissions sent 

via the U.S. Postal Service must be 

addressed to: Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street NE, Room 

1A, Washington, DC 20426. 

Submissions sent via any other carrier 

must be addressed to: Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, 

Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

The Commission’s Office of Public 

Participation (OPP) supports meaningful 

public engagement and participation in 

Commission proceedings. OPP can help 

members of the public, including 

landowners, environmental justice 

communities, Tribal members and 

others, access publicly available 

information and navigate Commission 


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